Windows/walls/yard/ways

204 Pages·1994·30.759 MB·English

by  Larry Eigner

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by Larry Eigner
Poems (1941)
From The Sustaining Air (1953)
LOOK AT THE PARK (1958)
ON MY EYES (1960)
THE MUSIC, THE ROOMS (1965)
SIX POEMS (1967)
another time in fragments (1967)
THE- / TOWARDS AUTUMN (1967)
air / the trees (1968)
The breath of once Live Things in the field with Poe (1968)
A LINE THAT MAY BE CUT (1968)
Clouding (1968)
FLAT AND ROUND (1969 and corrected edition 1980)
Farther North (1969)
Valleys / branches (1969)
Circuits—A MICROBOOK (1971)
looks like / nothing / the shadow / through air (1972)
Selected Poems (1972)
words touching / ground under (1972)
WHAT YOU HEAR (1972)
shape / shadow/ elements / move (1973)
THINGS STIRRING / TOGETHER / OR FAR AWAY (1974)
ANYTHING / ON ITS SIDE (1974)
suddenly / it gets light / and dark in the street (1975)
MY GOD THE PROVERBIAL (1975)
the music variety (1976)
watching / how or why (1977)
THE WORLD AND ITS STREETS, PLACES (1977)
cloud, invisible air (1978)
Flagpole / Riding (1978)
COUNTRY / HARBOR / QUIET / ACT / AROUND—selected prose (1978)
HEAT SIMMERS COLD & (1978)
lined up bulk senses (1979)
time / details / of a tree (1979)
now there’s / a morning / hulk of the sky (1981)
earth / birds (1981)
WATERS / PLACES / A TIME (1983)
areas / lights / heights—critical writings (1989)
A Count Of Some Things (1991)
WINDOWS / WALLS / YARD / WAYS (1994)
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LARRY E
WINDOWS/
WALLS/
YARD/
WAYS
(lines squares
paths worlds
backwards
sight
Edited by ROBERT GRENIER
Slack Sparrow Press Santa Rosa 1994
WINDOWS / WALLS / YARD / WAYS. Copyright © 1994 by Larry Eigner.
All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No
part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner what-
soever without written permission from the publisher except in
the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and re-
views. For information address Black Sparrow Press, 24 Tenth
Street, Santa Rosa, CA 95401.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks to the editors and publishers of the following magazines and mono-
graphs:
Magazines: Acts, African Golfer, Avec, Bezoar, Bluefish, Brief, Chicago
Review, Curtains, Damascus Road, Earth Ship, Friction, Hills, Imago,
Imprint, Issue, Jimmy and Lucy’s House of “K,” Kaleidoscope, Kudos,
La-Bas, Malthus, Maps, Moving Letters, 0*blek, Panjandrum, Pearl,
Poetry (Chicago), Poetry Now, Poetry U.S.A., 100 Posters, Potpourri,
Pyramid, Resuscitator, Roof, Sailing The Road Clear, Second Aeon, Sha-
dow/Play, Shearsman, Shell, Sink, Splash, Star- Web Paper, Sulfur, Sun
& Moon, Talisman, Tel-Let, Text, The, The Berkeley Review Of Books,
The Difficulties, The Ear In A Wheatfield, The Lampeter Muse, The Open
Letter, The Paris Review, The South Florida Poetry Journal, The Word-
Smith, The Worm In The Rain, This, To, Work, Zuk.
Anthologies: Best Minds (a festschrift for Allen Ginsberg on his 50th birth-
day), Epitaphs for Lorine, The Desert Review Anthology, Thunderbolts
Of Peace And Liberation.
Previous Collections: A Count Of Some Things (Score Publications: 1991),
Areas/Lights/Heights (Roof Books: 1989), Flagpole/Riding (Stingy Art-
ist: 1978), My God The Proverbial (L Publications: 1975), The Music Va-
riety (Roxbury Poetry Enterprises: 1976), Suddenly /It Gets Light /And
Dark In The Street (Green Horse Press: 1975).
Black Sparrow Press books are printed on acid-free paper.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Eigner, Larry, 1927-
WINDOWS / WALLS / YARD / WAYS / Larry Eigner ; edited by Robert Grenier.
p. cm.
Poetry.
ISBN 0-87685-921-X (cloth trade ed.) : $25.00. - ISBN 0-87685-920-1
(paper ed.) : $13.00 — ISBN 0-87685-922-8 (signed cloth ed.) : $30.00.
Grenier, Robert. II. Title.
PS3509.147W55 1994
811’.54—dc20 93-46410
CIP
In vivid living memory of my mother, B. P. Eigner (May
30, 1900-January 23, 1993), who those many years we were
together, worried so about me and, feeling such responsibil-
ity for me, she kept on doing me good so much (too too bent
on it, her mind I guess no less a fist than my left hand), she
was unable to take anything from, could only give to me, nor
could she glimpse how much I did take to what she found in
life to teach, couldn’t, likewise, imagine how I wanted to cheer,
give her good things and cheer her up, make life less weari-
some and happier for her; in memory of my father too—Israel,
“Esau,” “E.”—who also did what he could; in memory of
Maishe Polansky; and in love and gratitude to my brothers
Richie and Joe and their wives (and kids) and all the others
who have helped and help me out health and stillness to us
all, as much as can be